252 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vo i. xxiv. No. 286. 



Soc. Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 55 ; Hayata, Compos. Formos. p. 

 34 ; Matsum. et Hayata, Enuin. PI. Formos. p. 211. 



Cnicus japonicus /5. brevicaulis Maxim in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 

 324 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 261. 



? Cirsium japonicum var. Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beechey's Yoy. 

 (1841), p. 266. 



Stem short, ramose from the base, leafy. Leaves arachnoid- 

 pubescent on the midrib beneath ; lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 spinose and spinuloso-ciliated. Heads corymbosely cymose ; 

 bracts subtending the heads few and small ; peduncles usually 

 short, pubescent (not villose). Involucre rounded at the base, 

 glabrous ; scales imbricated, subulately linear -lanceola ted, 

 spinose at the apex, spinuloso-ciliated, several-nerved, adpressed, 

 the upper short portion free and ascending. Florets very 

 numerous. Corolla about 18mm. long; tube angustate, about 

 10mm. long ; lobes 5, linear, acutish or obtuse, shorter than 

 the throat which is narrowly tubular and 4mm. long. Con- 

 nective-tip deltoid, basal lobes of the anther-cells subulato-linear, 

 subsimply acuminate ; filament subglabrous. Style exserted, 

 filiform; branch-portion connate into one and about 3mm. long. 

 Pappus about 13mm. long. Achene linear-oblong, subangu - 

 lato-cylindrical, glabrous, pale, delicately vertically veined, 

 3|mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-azami (nov.). 



Hah. Liukiu : Shuri in Isl. Okinawa (K. Miyake. ! herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 20, 1899). 



Lactuca Matsumurae Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 

 (1892), p. 56, et XII. (1898), p. 45. 



var. dissecta Makino, var. nov. 



Leaves deeply pinnati-parted ; segments remote, few to 

 several on each side, spreading, linear, usually spreadingly few- 

 pinnati-parted into patent lobules ; rachis narrowly alate. 

 Otherwise as in the type. 



Nom. Jap. Kikuba-nonigana (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Hizen : Kaminagasaki-mura (Commun. Zentaro 

 Tasbiro). (To be continued). 



